You can see pictures of our new truck in the photo gallery. Yesterday, when we bought it, I thought the truck was blue. But this morning when we went out and looked at it again, we could see that it was indeed purple. Perhaps we will festoon it in green and yellow for carnival... perhaps not. It came fully loaded with an Obama sticker. We bought it from a writer who is also an organic garlic farmer. Fortunately, the truck is odorless (well it has that "old truck smell...") and vampire-free as far as we can tell. It runs great. A 1995 Ford F150 with 91.5K miles on it. It is NOT Eco-friendly, but we will leave that to the rich folks and their hybrid fleet. It is nice to have our own vehicle, super-nice to drive a truck again--and even nicer to be able to return the rental car. Our piano got delivered today and all went smoothly until the piano movers knocked a big limb off a pine tree backing up their semi--and they did not apologize...Kip had to saw it the rest of the way off of the tree and then into smaller pieces. Hope we don't get in trouble...it is awfully nice to have my piano again after 2 months. My Haitian friends say people should donate to the Red Cross. So dig into your pockets, people. And to close, as always, on a negative note, the irony of George W. Bush even pretending to care about this disaster after what he put the citizens of New Orleans through when the levees failed...is more than I can handle.